Library Terms

You don't need these to play

Without them, your photos and recordings stay on your phone, fill your Field Guide and count in your games. They just aren't submitted to the library, and can't win Originals or contest cards.

What you can submit

Only what you made yourself, in the app, of a real wild bird. No person you weren't allowed to photograph. Voices are removed on your phone before anything is saved or sent.

Each submission is signed with your account's key. That signature is your signed acceptance of these terms for that submission.

The licence you give

For each submission you give Hone and Birderlands, and whoever runs them later, a worldwide, permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence, which they may pass on, to store, show, copy, share, adapt and study it: in the bird library, in apps and on websites, for research, and to train and test bird models.

This licence comes first. It stays in force whoever owns the copyright later.

Copyright moves with the Original

Until a submission wins, you keep its copyright.

If it wins an Original, the copyright in it goes with that collectible. Whoever holds the Original holds the copyright, subject to the licence above. Each signed transfer of the Original is the written transfer of the copyright. If you want to keep the copyright, keep the Original.

Where the law of your country doesn't let copyright be transferred, each transfer instead gives the holder an exclusive, transferable right to use the work, on the same terms.

Contest cards follow the same rule. Field Badges carry no copyright: you keep it, subject to the licence.

Your moral rights stay with you

Your right to be named as the maker, and to object to changes that harm your reputation, stays with you to the extent the law of your country gives you those rights. It never moves with the Original.

Where the law lets you, you agree not to use those rights to stop the library or a holder from cropping, resizing, converting, or cutting out the background of a submission, as the game does.

Your Maker's Mark is a permanent record that you made the work. It can't be transferred and carries no copyright.

Your credit and contact on the Original

Each Original carries a credit name you choose (a pen name is fine) and a contact address like maker-7f3a@birderlands.com. Never your own email.

Mail to that address is forwarded to the email you choose. You can change where it goes, or switch it off, at any time in the app. Your real email is never written to a blockchain, because nothing written there can be removed.

Anyone can use the address to ask about your work. We don't read the messages, except to stop spam or abuse.

Checks and challenges

Submissions are checked for live capture, species, duplicates and quality. Higher-tier firsts may also be reviewed by other players.

A claim can be challenged during its hold window, and an upheld challenge cancels it before anything is minted. Copied, staged or edited submissions are removed and their claims cancelled.

Privacy

Exact coordinates never leave your phone. Places are shown no more precisely than the game allows: town level or wider for sensitive birds, and town level at most for finds on your home Wi-Fi. Your handle appears only if you choose, and only after a delay.

Stopping

You can stop submitting at any time under You › Bird library. What you already submitted stays licensed, and Originals already minted keep their copyright and their credit.

HONE is separate

Hone pays HONE for real listening on its own terms, whether or not you accept these. Nothing here changes it.

Law and contact

These terms follow the law and courts set in our Terms of Use: El Salvador, keeping the consumer protections of your own country. Questions: ornigo@honemesh.net.